The Minotaur motif appeared for the first time in the large collage Minotaur Breton published Surrealism and Painting illustrating the foreword with works by Picasso In Julio Gonzalez’ studio, Picasso executed his iron sculptures Bust and Figures projects for the Monument to Apollinaire, that Kahnweiler described as “outline drawings in space Picasso began collaborating with Gonzalez on Woman in the Garden The artist produced a series of paintings in which the classical themes of large nudes was subverted by a virulent colour palette and multiple deformities, as would be seen later in May in the Large Nude in Red Armchair
Carl Einstein published his essay “Pablo Picasso: Some Paintings from 1928″, in the first issue of Documents , a publication launched by dissident Surrealists led by Georges Bataille. Further articles on Picasso would be published in the magazine throughout its run, in particular by Michel Leiris.
Summer in Dinard.
On 15 December, Breton published the Second Manifesto of Surrealism in the final issue of La Révolution Surréaliste.